The Indiana Series by Matthew Graham

Matthew Graham served as the Indiana Poet Laureate 2020-2023 and is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Southern Indiana. He is the author of New World Architecture (Galileo Press, 1985), 1946 (Galileo Press, 1991), A World Without End (River City Publishing, 2006), and The Geography of Home (Galileo Press, 2019). He is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, Pushcart, The Indiana Arts Commission and the Vermont Studio Center. He lives in Evansville, Indiana and is married to the painter Katie Waters.

“You’re the baby grand of a lady and a gent,
You’re an Old Dutch Master,
You’re Mrs. Astor
You’re Pepsodent.” —Cole Porter

“Listening … can understand the absence of future, the improbability, in fact, of possibility.” —Mari Evans

“And yet you know. Always in your heart…
You have never really left.” —Ernie Pyle

“I am not going away.” —Mary Beth Edelson

“I did it for love.” —Elizabeth Finnern

“I meant to behave but there were too many other options.” —Janet Flanner

“Of dreams and the memory of them is life compounded.” —Theodore Dreiser